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Das Dreimäderlhaus (1918)
The German silent film Das Dreimäderlhaus/The House of Three Girls (Richard Oswald, 1918) tells with about a love affair of the young composer Franz Schubert in Vienna in 1826 and his attempts to...
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Conrad Nagel
American actor Conrad Nagel (1897-1970) was a tall, blue-eyed matinee idol of the 1920s. He successfully made the transition to sound film. German postcard by Ross Verlag Foreign, no. 3785/1,...
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Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse (1921-2008) was born to be a dancer. She became one of the top female dancers in the golden era of the musical. Her films include Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953),...
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Alessandra Panaro (1939-2019)
Last Wednesday, 1 May 2019, Alessandra Panaro (1939-2019), an Italian former film actress of the late 1950s and early 1960s, passed away. She is best known for Luchino Visconti's crime drama Rocco e i...
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Photo by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft (Ufa)
Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft (Ufa) was a major German film company headquartered in Babelsberg, near Berlin. From 1917 through to the end of the Nazi era, Ufa produced and distributed hundreds of...
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Shelley Winters
American actress Shelley Winters (1920-2006) appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television. She was a major film presence for six decades, and turned herself from a Blonde Bombshell...
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Viviane Romance
Temperamental and beautiful Viviane Romance (1912-1991) played dozens of flirts, femme fatales and fallen women in black & white classics of the French cinema of the 1930s and 1940s.French postcard...
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Das Herz des Casanova (1919)
Bruno Kastner was beloved as the elegant dandy and charming bonvivant of the German silent cinema. Das Herz des Casanova/The Heart of Casanova (Erik Lund, 1919) was one of the silent films on which his...
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The Red Shoes (1948)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948) is one of the best films about ballet thanks to the vision of its directors. The ballets, 'The Red Shoes ballet' by Sir Robert Helpmann and 'The...
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Kim Basinger
American film actress and former top model Kim Basinger (1953) won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in L.A. Confidential (1997). Her other films include Never Say Never Again (1983), Nine ½ Weeks...
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DEFA was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (GDR - East Germany). DEFA was an abbreviation for 'Deutsche Film AG' (German Film Corporation), reminiscent of the corporate name...
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Henry Fonda
Blue-eyed American actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982) exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He is most remembered for...
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Vera Hrubá Ralston
After achieving modest fame as an ice skater in her native Czechoslovakia, Vera Hruba (1923-2003) was brought to Hollywood by Republic Pictures head Herbert J. Yates, who hoped to turn her into the...
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Doris Day (1922-2019)
Yesterday, Doris Day (1922-2019) has died at her California home at the age of 97. The legendary actress and singer with her blonde hair and blue eyes performed with several big bands before going solo...
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Die Fürstin von Beranien (1918)
In the the silent German drama Die Fürstin von Beranien/The Princess of Berania (Ernst Reicher, 1918), heartthrob Bruno Kastner plays a prince who falls for the princess of Berania, played by Stella...
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Monpti (1957)
Romy Schneider and Horst Buchholz were one of the most beloved 'Traumpare' (dream couples) of the German cinema of the 1950s. Their most successful film together was the romantic drama Monpti/Love from...
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May McAvoy
May McAvoy (1899-1984) was an American actress of the silent screen, best known as Esther in the classic epic Ben-Hur (Fred Niblo, 1925).German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 708/1, 1925-1926....
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The Gaumont British Picture Corporation (GB) was a company that produced and distributed films and operated a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. In the 1930s, it was the largest film company in the...
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Sheree North
American film and television actress Sheree North (1932–2005) was one of 20th Century-Fox's intended successors to Marilyn Monroe. But North became her own woman in a varied and sometimes bumpy 40+...
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Divine
Harris Glenn Milstead, better known by his stage name Divine (1945-1988), was an American actor, singer, and drag queen. He was closely associated with the independent filmmaker John Waters. Divine...
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